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Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Figure 1 a & b: Stephen Fitzgerald @ Oregon State University Figure 2: McRae...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: © SolStock/iStock Trailer video: Alex Danson: © The Open...
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...write elegant essays about various aspects of organisations and still be unable to cope at all creatively with one face-to-face (this was certainly true for me at the beginning of my professional career). Such teaching would inevitably be very general – any particular organisation is unique and all colleagues are different. But in practice it is the particularities that...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...write film reviews in French. [Described image] Figure 1 Lumière poster The language level of this course for learners of French is upper intermediate, CEFR B2 or similar. Entrée en matière C’est en 1895 sur les grands boulevards parisiens qu’a eu lieu la première projection publique du cinématographe, l’invention des frères Lumière qui allait révolutionner...
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...writing are about bans being imposed and, in some cases, lifted. Test results are also the focus of some stories and another category was reporting about Russian doping transgressions. It seems most media stories focus on catching athletes and the sanctions imposed on them. The total number of different sports that feature in media reports is surprisingly high. In 2023...
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...Write a description, in about 200 words, of how marmosets use their claws and teeth to obtain food and explain why their methods of obtaining food differ from those of other monkeys. Answer Marmosets are tiny, enabling them to venture onto thin twigs that cannot support the weight of larger monkeys. Their light body enables them to walk along twigs without shaking and...
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...Write down the percentage of men aged between 25 and 34 who smoke over 20 cigarettes a day. (b) How many of the men aged 60 or over are non-smokers? (c) Which age group has the highest percentage of heavy smokers? Answer (a) Find ‘25–34’ in the column headings; then look down this column to the ‘Over 20’ row. This gives 29%. (b) The ‘60 or over’ column shows...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...and violence. Our goal is to further the development of creative methods that address some of contemporary society’s most urgent social, cultural, political and ethical issues. These reflections draw from discussion within CCIG, mainly among researchers in the Methods Group, led in 2014-5 by former CCIG director Professor Jef Huysman. With my thanks to everyone....